A jury ordered a Massachusetts jewelry store employee to pay more than $30,000 to a competing business after he posted a negative review of the shop on Yelp.

“He told people we were thieves, that we were cold-blooded thieves,” the owner of Stephen Leigh Jewelers, Stephen Blumberg told CBS Boston. “I’ve never been convicted of anything in my life.”

Blumberg sued Adam Jacobs, an employee at Toodie’s Fine Jewelry Store in Quincy, claiming he posted fake information about his store on Yelp.

Stephen Blumberg (pictured) sued an employee of Toodie's Fine Jewelry, and a jury awarded him $34,500 in damages in March 2017.

(CBS Boston)

In a multi-paragraph review, Jacobs — whose father owns Toodie’s — wrote about how he entered Stephen Leigh Jewelers to purchase an engagement ring and continued on to detail his experience, insisting others interested in shopping for jewelry “go elsewhere.”

But Jacobs never actually went into the shop to purchase an engagement ring, according to the lawsuit cited by the Patriot Ledger.

A jury in late March decided the post on the review website caused Blumberg “emotional distress” and ordered Jacobs to pay the shop owner $34,500. Blumberg also sued the store located less than a half-mile away from his own, but Toodie’s was not found to be at fault.